Kanichiro Tashiro

Kanichiro Tashiro (1 October 1881-16 July 1937) was a Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Biography
Kanichiro Tashiro was born on 1 October 1881 in Saga Prefecture, Japan. In 1903, he graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and from the Army War College in 1913. In 1921, he was a member of the Japanese delegation to sign the Washington Naval Treaty, and he later served as a staff officer in the army before becoming Chief-of-Staff of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army and then the commander of the Kwantung Army's kempeitai military police. In 1936, he took command of the Japanese China Garrison Army in Tientsin, and he commanded it at the time of the Marco Polo incident in 1937. He died in Tientsin of a heart illness just eleven days after the incident, and he did not get to command the Japanese during their retaliatory invasion of China.